Drawing on social capital theory, this study examined whether college students’ self-disclosure on a social networking site was directly associated with social capital, or related indirectly through the degree of positive feedback students got from Internet friends. Structural equation models applied to anonymous, self-report survey data from 264 first-year students at 3 universities in Beijing...

The impact of knowledge loss on an organization is a largely unexplored area of strategic management. This article reports the fi ndings from an in-depth case study of an organization within the Australian Department of Defence, which suggest that lost human capital may produce decreased organizational output and productivity; lost social capital may reduce organizational memory; lost structura...

We propose a cross-sectional time-series model to assess the impact of market liberalizations in emerging equity markets on the cost of capital, volatility, beta, and correlation with world market returns. Liberalizations are defined by regulatory changes, the introduction of depositary receipts and country funds, and structural breaks in equity capital flows to the emerging markets. We control...

A variety of foreign-led economies has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineties. This paper explains the emergence of the competition state in the region and analyzes its political support and institutional underpinning. While the structural power of transnational capital and integration into the European regulatory framework had major roles in steering the state into the comp...

This paper develops a multi-year lag Input-Holding-Output (I-H-O) Model on education with exclusion of the idle capital to address the reasonable education structure in support of a sustainable development strategy in China. First, the model considers the multiyear lag of human capital because the lag time of human capital is even longer and more important than that of fixed capital. Second, it...

In the Intellectual Capital (IC) literature, only a few studies have analyzed the relationships among the components of IC and organizational success. This study provides further insight into the role of IC in organizational performance, especially financial performance. In this order, Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAICTM) method has been used for measuring the value based performance o...

Capital accumulation is the driving force of urban economic development. Many contemporary urban problems—including rapid land price inflation, greater socio-spatial inequalities, and the stresses of middle-ring suburbs—are traceable to the forms that the accumulation process is taking. Changes in the relationships between industrial capital, financial capital, and property capital underpin the...